How Many Charging Stations Would We Need to Totally Replace Gas Stations?

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Buyers curious about making the switch to electric vehicles have made it clear in survey after survey after survey: Charging kind of freaks them out...

But fueling an electric vehicle is different, and can be inconvenient depending on where you live, and is therefore sometimes scary to even those interested in buying electric...

Automakers are scaling up EV production and want people to buy them, and legislators realize that nixing gas-powered cars in favor of zero-emissions electrics will be an important part of staving off the worst effects of climate change...

As a result of the early efforts to make the switch to EVs, the US currently has 188,600 public and private charging ports, and 67,900 charging stations, according to data collected by the US Department of Energyfigures that have more than doubled since 2020..

The last 20 percent of charging, Coltura assumes, will happen at those public charging stations, approximately 70 percent of which will be the DC fast chargers, currently the fastest available...